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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

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581 points antr | 1 comments | 16 Aug 13 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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smackfu ◴[16 Aug 13 12:40 UTC] No.6223589[source]▶
Honestly, this completely makes sense given how Google has been killing off non-profitable products lately. Why pay engineers to work on projects that will never meet a business case? This isn't the olden days of Google, where they would shovel anything out there and see if it stuck.
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1. mindcrime ◴[16 Aug 13 15:39 UTC] No.6224660[source]▶
Why pay engineers to work on projects that will never meet a business case?

Isn't that begging the question in regards to whether or not you can know, ahead of time, which projects will or won't become viable and have a supporting business case?